Black Past
Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed: Josephine Baker
Entry, from an online encyclopedia of African American history, for Josephine Baker.
Curated OER
Npr Online: Franz Joseph Haydn
This is a biography on Franz Joseph Haydn. It also includes an audio lecture on Haydn with his music as a background to the lecture.
Luminarium
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
This site provides a selection of major authors and works associated with English literature, ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer to Sir Isaac Newton. Each author's page contains online texts of the author's works, essays about the author and...
Other
Cathedrale Notre Dame De Paris
At the online home of one of the most famous Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages find information and supporting visuals on the building's history and architectural significance as well as its religious services and sacred music.
Other
Farmers' Museum: Harvest of History: History of New York State Argriculture
Site compares and contrasts a farming village of 1845 to that of the present day. Students can make their own video online using clips, narrative, and music supplied by the museum.
Other
Music Concepts Online: Notation: Basic Rhythm and Pitch
This site looks at rhythm, terms and concepts, which include rhythm, score, note (parts of and kinds), rests, tie. Great information.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Lesson Plan Z: The Arts
LessonPlanZ, a searchable online database of lesson plans, provides links to lesson plans for arts and crafts, movement and dance, drama, and music.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Lesson Plan z.com: Movement & Dance
LessonPlanZ.com, a searchable online database of lesson plans, provides a listing of movement and dance-related lesson plans.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaboration of Sites, Sounds: Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
This lesson makes a connection to popular culture by asking students to research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and to catalogue them in a class wiki.
Starfall
Starfall: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A short online storybook about Mozart for early readers. The vocabulary is posted below the book.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Leonard Bernstein Collection
This site from the Library of Congress provides information on perhaps the most important American musical figure of the 20th century has over 400,000 items housed in the Library of Congress. Photographs, his famous Young People's...
Other
Dawn: Pakistani English Newspaper
Online articles from DAWN, credited as Pakistan's oldest and most widely circulated English newspaper and one of its two largest English dailies. Site also includes DAWN Young World, a weekly magazine with articles of interest to young...
Other
Powertyping: Alphabetic Rain
Learn to type with this online free typing tutor game which focuses on learning typing with the rhythm of music. There are five levels of play; post your score to see if you're in the top.
Other
Myriad Software: Quantizing
Offers information on what quantizing is, how it works, when it's used. Also discusses its effectiveness.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: A Song for All Seasons
After listening to excerpts from four of the violin concertos from "The Four Seasons" by Italian composer and violinist, Antonio Vivaldi, decide which excerpt was meant to go with which season, and also decide where the earth would be in...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Frank Norris
This site features the author Frank Norris including the full text of five novels and nine short stories.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Stephen C. Foster, Old Folks at Home
This website from the University of Toronto not only provides the lyrics to Stephen C. Foster's song, "Old Folks at Home," but also includes general information about the song.
Other
Spotsylvania County Schools: Curriculum Maps
This site features an outline of how to implement the use of curriculum maps into a school district curriculum program.
Curated OER
Web News Cleveland (Wmv): The Daybook
WMV web news Cleveland is an online local alternative news source. Content includes articles and reviews of local entertainment and music.